An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire.
Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. Chaucer. He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. Spenser. Mire crow (Zoöl.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] -- Mire drum, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]
To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
To soil with mud or foul matter. Smirched thus and mired with infamy. Shak.
To stick in mire. Shak.
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